The Future of Scorecards

[John Kavanaugh]

Thanks. I wouldn't play either.   

[John Kavanaugh]

We need to be very careful not to lose touch with the difficulty of putting. It's bad enough playing against people who don't know how or refuse to take a proper drop. I'm not getting into a pick up basketball game where a guy screams foul on every missed shot and swears the ball touched the hole and then screams social distancing as we converge on his lying ass.


Play for fun under these trying times. Don't vlog your scorecard to anyone who will watch.

[Daryl David]

Only one club in my area decided to use raised cup liners. All the others are using something in the cup to make it shallower so the ball drops in.  The club with the raised liners has an unusual rule. If you strike the liner, the ball is considered holed unless the ball rebounds away more than 24 inches away. Amazing how weird things are getting. 

[Mark Mammel]

We have our cups set in to the green at the regulation depth, with a foam piece around the flagstick such that the ball drops about an inch into the cup. I've played courses with the raised cup so the ball bounces off. This system is much better. If the ball actually drops down onto the foam, then hops out it counts. Sure, you can argue about whether the ball would have actually dropped, but the idea that if it hit the raised plastic liner its in is silly. An back to scorecards- I think they will hang around. I like to write down the scores with a pencil. I can track matches, individual games, and my putts ( keep track of your own!).

[Daryl David]

The foam method (pool noodle piece) has been abandoned around here due to some putts bouncing back out. The standard now seems to be a piece of pvc pipe 2” diameter and 2 5/8th” long with the flag stick placed thru it. Very high tech!  Seems to be the perfect height for ball to drop but still be retrieved without much contact. Seems perfectly normal after a month. Another bonus has been the retraining of the minority of players that still insisted on removing the flag for putting. Since the rule change, there seemed to be at least one guy in each group that said the rule was stupid. They wanted to look like a real player. That “guy” is now being assimilated and speeding up play.